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Topic: Age old question - What do you want for Christmas? (Read 1192 times)

Every year my wife asks me what I want for Christmas. I respond with things like certain vintage star wars stuff or certain figures or ships. Or I might respond with certain vintage video game carts or systems or certain programming books. Of course non of this stuff is ever available in real stores. No matter what I ask for I'm told that is stuff you can buy for yourself. What is stuff she can actually find and buy for me?

Do you guys have this problem? People ask what you want for Christmas but never want to buy those kinds of things you ask for?

So what are some good things the average Star Wars geek could get for Christmas even if he already owns a comb?

This pretty much happens to me every year. They'll ask what I want and then they'll ask me where to find it, as if there wasn't a Barnes & Noble in every city in America. A couple years back I asked for that Making of ESB book, and they got me a Darth Vader cookie jar. This year, I mentioned something about either the Achtung Baby boxset or the Pearl Jam 20 book, so I'll just have to wait and see what I get.

I've asked the people I buy for what they want, and I've already got all of it, so there's really no excuse why they can't get me what I want. I'm sure I'll end up buying both those things on December 26th.

Yeah, that's sad, Ben. Google is useful, or even Amazon... Of course, I've come to the realization that most people in my family don't enjoy the same music or don't know about Star Wars that I've sent out my list with pictures on it.

This pretty much happens to me every year. They'll ask what I want and then they'll ask me where to find it, as if there wasn't a Barnes & Noble in every city in America. A couple years back I asked for that Making of ESB book, and they got me a Darth Vader cookie jar. This year, I mentioned something about either the Achtung Baby boxset or the Pearl Jam 20 book, so I'll just have to wait and see what I get.

I've asked the people I buy for what they want, and I've already got all of it, so there's really no excuse why they can't get me what I want. I'm sure I'll end up buying both those things on December 26th.

wow you come across as really ungrateful and self entitled in that post.

I just tell them I don't want anything because in reality the things I want are too expensive and I don't expect or want my family and friends to spend a lot of their money on me. I end up settling for a book or maybe a cheap xbox game if they really want to get me something. The same applies for birthdays too.

My biggest problem is I'll put the effort in and they won't. It's already started this year, and I kind of flew off the handle there. It happens every year, so I guess that yes, I am quite ungrateful. They don't try or care, so whatever.

Question: "What do you want for Christmas?" I respond with my list. The following is a list of common responses I get back:

Why do you want that?Where are you going to put that?There is no room for that. I don't buy that kind of thing.That is something you can buy for yourself.You don't need that.What is something you want that I can actually buy in a store?You'll shoot your eye out.